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Why does Martin Fowler not understand feature branches?

21 points by philliphaydon 8y ago

Pxtl 8y ago
> Error establishing a database connection
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evadne 8y ago
[2011] https://web.archive.org/web/20180919111616/https://jamesmckay.net/2011/07/why-does-martin-fowler-not-understand-feature-branches/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180919111616/https://jamesmcka...
- ddtaylor 8y ago
  archive.org is amazing.
bsaul 8y ago
can anyone provide some context ?
- jufemaiz 8y ago
  Agreed. It's 7 years on so... did it get missed in round 1?
- mac01021 8y ago
  The article links to its context.
- douglaswlance 8y ago
  The article links directly to the context.
avar 8y ago
Usually "why is this on HN?" is pointless whining, but in this case I'll make an exception. Really, why? This is a 7-year old rant referencing a video that's no longer available (the original URL has gone away), so there's no way for anyone to make sense of this old debate. The original page is on archive.org, but the video was embedded via Flash and doesn't work anymore: https://web.archive.org/web/20111231235506/http://www.thoughtworks.com/perspectives/30-06-2011-continuous-delivery https://web.archive.org/web/20111231235506/http://www.though...
fluffybunnyfeet 8y ago
"Error establishing a database connection" Why does James McKay not understand website configuration?
timavr 8y ago
Interesting arguments people had when the world was young. If I do multiple commits into main a day, will probably get a visit from CTO. Will test tomorrow.
wruza 8y ago
>The reason why people think feature branches are for long-running epics is because that is the way that old school centralised tools have taught them to think. They’ve made branching and merging hard through poor tooling, algorithm support and architecture, so people do everything in trunk except for epics, then they run into problems and the whole pattern becomes self-reinforcing. Very well self-assuring that git predecessors were complete idiots. Not even worth to read it further, probably.
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jammycakes 8y ago
Hi, author here. As other commenters have noted, this post is seven years old. My position on feature branches has evolved (and softened somewhat as well) in the meantime. I posted an update about 18 months ago: https://jamesmckay.net/2017/01/martin-fowler-and-feature-branches-revisited/ https://jamesmckay.net/2017/01/martin-fowler-and-feature-bra...

21 points by philliphaydon 8y ago

Pxtl 8y ago

> Error establishing a database connection

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evadne 8y ago

[2011] https://web.archive.org/web/20180919111616/https://jamesmckay.net/2011/07/why-does-martin-fowler-not-understand-feature-branches/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180919111616/https://jamesmcka...

ddtaylor 8y ago
archive.org is amazing.

bsaul 8y ago

can anyone provide some context ?

jufemaiz 8y ago
Agreed. It's 7 years on so... did it get missed in round 1?
mac01021 8y ago
The article links to its context.
douglaswlance 8y ago
The article links directly to the context.

avar 8y ago

Usually "why is this on HN?" is pointless whining, but in this case I'll make an exception. Really, why? This is a 7-year old rant referencing a video that's no longer available (the original URL has gone away), so there's no way for anyone to make sense of this old debate. The original page is on archive.org, but the video was embedded via Flash and doesn't work anymore: https://web.archive.org/web/20111231235506/http://www.thoughtworks.com/perspectives/30-06-2011-continuous-delivery https://web.archive.org/web/20111231235506/http://www.though...

fluffybunnyfeet 8y ago

"Error establishing a database connection" Why does James McKay not understand website configuration?

timavr 8y ago

Interesting arguments people had when the world was young. If I do multiple commits into main a day, will probably get a visit from CTO. Will test tomorrow.

wruza 8y ago

>The reason why people think feature branches are for long-running epics is because that is the way that old school centralised tools have taught them to think. They’ve made branching and merging hard through poor tooling, algorithm support and architecture, so people do everything in trunk except for epics, then they run into problems and the whole pattern becomes self-reinforcing. Very well self-assuring that git predecessors were complete idiots. Not even worth to read it further, probably.

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jammycakes 8y ago

Hi, author here. As other commenters have noted, this post is seven years old. My position on feature branches has evolved (and softened somewhat as well) in the meantime. I posted an update about 18 months ago: https://jamesmckay.net/2017/01/martin-fowler-and-feature-branches-revisited/ https://jamesmckay.net/2017/01/martin-fowler-and-feature-bra...